I read an article in the DailyMail today about a 94 year old widow who has corresponded with and visited a serious sexual predator and killer who is on death row. In one of the comments the word Hybristophilia was mentioned and since I didn’t know what it was, I looked it up. […]

Peace and contentment This summer has been one of the most peaceful and happy summers I have spent in a long time. I really wasn’t sure just “why” this summer was so peaceful and why I am so content out here in my “little hole in the woods” on our farm. I got to thinking […]

In medicine professionals have observed the “anniversary syndrome” where a person who lost a loved one on a certain date, may be likely to die on the anniversary of that loved one’s death. My own grandmother would have died exactly to the minute three years after my grandfather died in a car wreck […]

How do you cope when the offender in your life is so universally hated for a crime so heinous that when the state tried to let him out on parole, riots and protests erupted? The state of California, frustrated by these protests and refusals of areas to house him, eventually put a trailer on prison […]

The holiday we celebrate every year to mark the Revolutionary War of Independence from British Royal oppression in the eighteenth century is always bittersweet to me. Whereas many of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence that stated that ALL men had the RIGHT to pursue happiness and that all men were […]